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Words from The Book of Disquiet
Edition, in color and in hardcover, with the most luminous and representative excerpts of the book of the Restless - the "Book of the Disenchantment of the World, but also, paradoxically, a book of jubilation" -, written by Fernando pessoa-vicente Guedes-bernardo soares. It includes an introduction with the history of the book.
The presence of Fernando Pessoa - the most universal of Portuguese authors - "Imposed himself, a little all over the world, thanks to the book of unrest - an impossible, unfinished and unfinished book", according to the words of Eduardo lourenço.
I record, day by day, the impressions that form the external substance of my consciousness of myself. I put them in slutty words, which desert me since I write them, and make mistakes, independent of me, by slopes and lawns of images, by aleas of concepts, by ash of confusions.
Fernando pessoa-bernardo soares
The presence of Fernando Pessoa - the most universal of Portuguese authors - "Imposed himself, a little all over the world, thanks to the book of unrest - an impossible, unfinished and unfinished book", according to the words of Eduardo lourenço.
I record, day by day, the impressions that form the external substance of my consciousness of myself. I put them in slutty words, which desert me since I write them, and make mistakes, independent of me, by slopes and lawns of images, by aleas of concepts, by ash of confusions.
Fernando pessoa-bernardo soares
166 pages, Hardcover
Published September 1, 2023
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Fernando Pessoa
1,252 books6,375 followersFernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.
It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they had different religious and political views, different aesthetic sensibilities, different social temperaments. And each produced a large body of poetry. Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis also signed dozens of pages of prose.
The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda.
It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they had different religious and political views, different aesthetic sensibilities, different social temperaments. And each produced a large body of poetry. Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis also signed dozens of pages of prose.
The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda.
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